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We’re sure you’ve been busy running around like a chicken with its head cut off with all the last-minute holiday shopping. If you’ve been too busy to check Twitter this week, we’ve got you covered. We rounded up some of the most talked about topics on Twitter this week so you don’t have to feel out of the loop.

Check out the top trending topics on Twitter for the week ending in December 17:

1. Mazembe
Mazembe, the African soccer team from the Democratic Republic of Congo, defeated the South American team, Internacional, by 2-0. For the first time, an African team goes to the finals of the FIFA Club World Cup. #Mazembe

2. Metrodome
The roof of the Metrodome, home to the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, deflated and collapsed, dumping snow on the field below, which forced games to be postponed. #Metrodome

3. Scarlett Johansson / Ryan Reynolds
Scarlett Johansson and the Sexiest Man of the Year, Ryan Reynolds, are getting a divorce. #ScarlettJohansson

4. Text You Get From a Stalker
One of the creepiest hashtags we’ve seen in a while. People are tweeting texts you might get from a stalker. For example, “The view from this tree is good enough for me to see what you’re tweeting right now.” #TextYouGetFromAStalker

5. In High School
People are explaining what they do or did when in they were in high school. If you want to combine two trends from this week, you can use this tweet: “I’ve been following you since we were #inhighschool.

Check out the rest of Twitter’s trending topics of the week after the jump!

Twitter has released a list of the top ten re-tweeted Twitterers for 2010. Yes, it was a landmark year in which Colbert — who takes home the top prize — made a funny about the oil spill, Drake said something vaguely wise, Lil Wayne announced his return from prison, Bieber said something we couldn’t be bothered to translate, fake Al Qaeda knew what was up with geo-location, Joe Jonas made fun of someone with less cred than himself, Lady Gaga reavowed her freakdom, Kanye said he was sorry to Taylor Lautner for calling him a wimp, Rihanna made fun of someone with less cred than herself, and some random person’s dad said some mildly amusing stuff. Yup, that about sums it up.

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You’re going to need something to wrap all those holiday gifts in, right? If you chose any of the gift ideas from our Daily Gift series, then you undoubtedly chose a geeky present. To stay with that theme, a nerdified wrapping paper is absolutely necessary. Sure, you could go with the QR Code Wrapping Paper we mentioned a few weeks ago. Or, you can honor the greatness of Twitter with Samsung’s Tweet Wrap.

As part of its holiday campaign to promote the Samsung RF510 laptop, The Barbarian Group has launched Tweetwrap, which allows visitors to customize their own Xmas wrapping paper. You can choose from six patterns. Then, you select the text for your tweets. You can choose by keyword, such as #HappyHolidays, Santa, Presents, I<3U, #Surprise, or #MerryChristmas. Additionally, you can enter and search for your own keyword, or for a username.

Then, you can place your order and get your tube of paper for $6.95. The site was offering 3,000 rolls for free, but you can still get your personalized paper for under $7 (plus shipping). Additionally, wrappers can then take photos of their presents and upload them to the site for a chance to win various Samsung prizes.

You can check out my Bieber wrapping paper to see another pattern (and a funny tweet).

It was kind of a depressing week in Twitter. The buzz on the Twits was about the 30th  anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, Elizabeth Edwards succumbing to cancer, Julian Assange being arrested for rape allegations, and so on. There were a few uplifting things in the mix as well, so don’t let that holiday spirit fall too much. If you missed out on the most talked-about subjects from the week, we’ve got you covered.

Check out the top trending topics on Twitter for the week ending in December 10:

1. John Lennon
December 8, 2010 marked the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. #Lennon

2. Pearl Harbor
Sixty-nine years have passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On December 7, 1941, Japan dropped a bomb on the US base in Pearl Harbor, which started World War II in the Asian and Pacific oceans. #PearlHarbor

3. Elizabeth Edwards
Wife of former candidate for Vice President John Edwards for the Democratic Party passed away on Tuesday at age 61 to cancer. #ElizabethEdwards

4. All I Want
People are tweeting about things they want sooner or later. For example, all I want: is peace on earth, for Christmas is my two front teeth, etc. #Alliwant

5. Julian Assange / Arrested
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in connection with Swedish allegations of sexual assault. People are suspicious of possible political motives behind these allegations, after the recent publication of confidential documents on the Wikileaks site. #Assange

Check out the next five topics after the jump!

Twitter early this week denied claims that it was censoring trending topics surrounding the embattled whistle blowing site WikiLeaks. The microblogging service does appear to have stepped into the fray, however, by suspending the account of Operation Payback, the group that helped rally hackers against MasterCard and Visa in the wake of the companies’ decision to freeze WikiLeaks fundraising accounts.

Twitter early this week denied claims that it was censoring tweets from the embattled whistle blowing site WikiLeaks. The microblogging service does appear to have stepped into the fray, however, by suspending the account of Operation Payback, the group that helped rally hackers against MasterCard and Visa in the wake of the company’s decision to freeze WikiLeaks fundraising accounts.

There’s not much in the way of info–just the standard Twitter error message with te words “Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended.”

Operation Payback took partial credit for the DDoS attacks that took down Visa and MasterCard yesterday–attacks that were also linked to infamous message board, 4Chan.